Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Okinawa coconut crab is seen in this undated handout photo. Shin-ichiro Oka/Handout via REUTERS By Will Dunham WASHINGTON ...

Coconut crabs’ claws already look fearsome enough as it is, but appearance merely tells part of the story. According to a new study, these claws may actually be the most powerful in the entire animal ...

A close-up of a coconut crab on Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Laura Beauregard U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service The largest hermit crabs on the planet cannot help but attract speculation and ...

Some animals have crushing bites that can break even bones, but the coconut crab can crush incredibly tough objects with nothing more than its hefty claws. Image Credit: Anke Heldmann/YouTube As their ...

Poking around on the beach, you may have encountered a hermit crab — a typically petite crustacean whose home is the shell it carries around on its back. Now imagine that tiny crab grew bigger and ...

Coconut crabs might be the heavyweight champions of all crustaceans. The largest land-dwelling crab on Earth, Birgus latro can lift about 66 pounds with its pincers and can pinch with about 750 pounds ...

A big coconut crab snaps its outsized left claw as hard as a lion can bite, new measurements suggest. So what does a land crab the size of a small house cat do with all that pinch power? For starters, ...

There’s a theory that giant crabs overwhelmed Amelia Earhart, dismembered her and carried her bones underground. Speculative, at best. Sounds crazy, we know. But so has almost every other horrifying ...

In the war to unseat humanity as rulers of the animal kingdom, the main combatants are cephalopods, ravens, raccoons, and a new contender — coconut crabs. “On March 2, 2016, in the middle of the night ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It may not be wise to get into a scrap with a coconut crab. Its claw is a mighty weapon. Scientists on Wednesday said they measured the pinch strength of this large land crab ...